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2D Character Animation in After Effects with Angie Taylor
Language: English | 02:30:00 | 1280x720 | Flash Video | 767 MB
Genre: eLearning

Sorting and Interpreting Footage
• Sorting Files
• Interpret Footage Options for Transparency and Gradients
Animating Using Traditional Layer-Style Animation
• Setting Up Anchor Points
• Keyframing Transform Properties
• Keyframe Types
• Fine-Tuning Animation with the Graph Editor

Creating a Grouping Structure for Body Parts
• Precomposing to Create Groups
• Using Parenting to Create Hierarchical Animation

Animating with the Puppet Tool
• Recording Animation with the Puppet Tool
• Animating the Overlap Tool
• Using the Starch Tool to Control Deformations

Creating Stop-Frame-Style Animation
• Animating Paint Strokes with the Paintbrush
• Sequencing Hand-Drawn Layers

Expressions and Scripting
• Linking Properties
• Using the Linear and Ease Expressions
• Applying Loop Expressions
• Using Audio to Control Animation
• Setting Up Control Layers
• Scripts That Aid in Inverse Kinematics

Animating Using Time Remapping
• Keyframing Facial Expressions
• Automatically Lip-Syncing to Audio

Output Options
• Exporting Files for Flash
• Making Movies via the Render Queue